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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Getting Started

This will be my fourth attempt at a blog ... will I write it
this time? Who knows. Hopefully, I will. I'm happier when I write.

My
first blog attempt was a windows spaces thing. I did that for a month
or two and lost interest. Then I tried something through MobileMe, and had fun but our trial subscription ran out and I didn't have enough fun to renew it for $100/year. Then finally, I've had
two WordPress blogs. One of those actually had a lot of readers for
awhile, anywhere from 800 - 4,000 a day. I got some sponsors and made enough money to pay for my own domain and a professional template. My mistake was getting sponsors. The second someone was paying me to write the content, I started thinking of it as a second job and then it wasn't fun anymore. I quit doing it the second my sponsors' purchased time was up.

I just want to write and those who know me know that I
always have something to say, so blogging seems to be a good fit.

In
the next year, I hope to write my first novel. This blog will, in
part, chronicle that adventure. My wife and I are also about to have
our FIFTH child, so that's bloggable too. I'm about to embark on an adventure with P90X2 and that will be a task that I'll touch upon from time to time. There's an ongoing Presidential election, and I may hit on that a bit.